Physicists find evidence of "negative time" in photons

[thomdunn]

Originally published at: Physicists find evidence of "negative time" in photons - Boing Boing

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[euansmith]

[anon29537550]

[anon87143080]

What it means is that someone has inaccuracies in their measurements. Or they discovered tachyons.

[FSogol]

I knew it. Most afternoons in 7th grade Algebra, I saw the clock moving in reserve.

[euansmith]

Aren’t Tachyons just less adhesive Gluons?

[Grey_Devil]

Would this explain why Paul Rudd seems to not be aging?

[manraytrace]

[anon29537550]

Almost certainly true. Remember when they thought they had found FTL photons? Error in equipment. But it will generate interest until it doesn’t. One of these days, one of these will be correct. Or so I have in my wish list!

[edrowland]

Or you could do a quick check to look up what “group delay” actually means. (or take a first-year course in Engineering mathematics, or a 2nd year course in mathematical mathematics. The principle difference being that mathematicians will be able to prove that this is completely unimpressive, whereas engineers are satisfied with “unimpressive for all practical purposes”.

[Purplecat]

Physicists- fine. Just don’t get the Chemistry department involved in this.

[chromecow]

Link to the article: Evidence of ‘Negative Time’ Found in Quantum Physics Experiment | Scientific American

[hecep]

excerpt: "[The study was] uploaded to the preprint server arXiv.org on September 5 and has not yet been peer-reviewed.

[chenille]

Has anyone checked in antipasto?

[smulder]

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[Bfarnn]

@thomdunn

negative time when it’s just a normal fact of life for people with ADHD and something we’ve been trying to explain to everyone around us for years.

Can confirm. Most of my time is negative, it’s not great.

[anon94804983]

[FGD135]

Reminds me of the cold fusion thing from a while ago.

[robertmckenna]

Can you narrow that down for me? Or do you mean every single cold fusion thing?

[Mike_Jackson1]

We all know where this is going:

“In that case, it is possible that the convergence of three tachyon pulses could’ve ruptured the subspace barrier and created an anti-time reaction.”

“I see where you’re going, Data. And because anti-time operates opposite the way normal time does, the effects would travel backwards through the space-time continuum.”

“Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I’m going to miss you. You had such potential. But then again, all good things must come to an end.”